Pieces Quotes

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece

I always write the pieces I want to write.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.

I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.

Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces

I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

Probably looking at a piece of paper and all the features of a minivan, the minivan is probably the best car in the world.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.

As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor.

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.

I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.

If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior.

A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.

Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

It's not about mainstream global domination. I make clothes that I can't find. I made a few pieces and Lupe Fiasco bought a pair of trousers I'd made, and a few other artists picked some up.

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything.

Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she's my biggest influence.

Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.

When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him" Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?

Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something.

I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.

I just want pieces of the world.

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.